Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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NICK WRIGHT argues that the deep ideological malaise in ruling-class free-market thinking does not mean that a lacklustre, centrist Labour Party can just expect their turn to govern without some vision for a changed society
Asked to choose between Johnson and Starmer on who would make the best prime minister the clear majority thought “neither” — with a larger margin of opinion convinced that Johnson wouldn’t. More than twice as many people (55 per cent) think Starmer doesn’t look like a prime-minister in waiting than the 25 per cent who do.
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
AS the days get longer the Health Security Agency has suggested that the latest coronavirus variant, omicron, appears less likely to cause a serious illness or result in hospitalisation than the previously dominant variant.
One conclusion reached on the right of politics is that the threat from Covid is overblown and infection is now no more serious than a minor affliction. This is the unstated but underlying thinking of the “no constraints on business” faction.
If omicron has a reduced effect on some of the infected than earlier variants then this is good news for those individuals.
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